When I contemplate the immense advances in science and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my life, I look forward with confidence to equal advances by the present generation, and have no doubt they will consequently be as much wiser than we have been as we than our fathers were, and they than the burners of witches.

What we learn to do, we learn by doing.

Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.

The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.

I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.

That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our political and religious freedom.